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5.12.2012

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day

my Mom and me, circa 1977

Becoming a mother has taught me just how blessed I am to have a wide circle of mothers in my life beginning with my very own mom. Although I know she worries about the kind of job she did raising my brother and me, it was she who taught us, by example, the most important lessons I carry with me: kindness, compassion, generosity, faith, understanding, good manners and gratitude. She has always taken note of the beauty in the simplest things around her from the shape of a cloud, to the color of the sky. I see my own two kiddos noticing the very same things. I know I don't say it enough, but thank you, Mom. I love you.

Motherhood reminds me just how much

I am grateful for

the memories and legacies of my grandmothers

and my Aunt Terry who loved me in a way that only grandmothers can

and who all left far too soon.

I am blessed to have my three Conaty aunts,
who are not mothers themselves but have the hearts of one.
They have loved me like their own my whole life.

I am grateful for women like Mrs. G. who had four children of her own

but somehow always found room to take on a fifth. Me.

I am lucky to have a mother-in-law who not only raised a remarkable son for me to marry,
but loves me, treats me, and encourages me like a daughter.

I am so fortunate to have friends and family to share this experience with:

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